Tools

Semantic MediaWiki

Semantic MediaWiki is an extension to MediaWiki (the engine behind Wikipedia and many other websites). It allows the encoding of semantic data within wiki pages in a formal yet easy way. Data that has been encoded can be used in semantic searches, complex inline queries, for aggregation of pages, and exported to external semantic applications via RDF.
Semantic MediaWiki is open source software and has been developed by AIFB in cooperation with FZI. We offer commercial services concerning installation, maintenance and general consulting on Semantic MediaWiki.

Imagenotion - The New Way of Image Annotation and Search

ImageNotion allows for the creation of semantic annotations for images and image parts. Therefore, every image annotator may simply create new required semantic elements. They may be reused and optimized by all members of a community. Image search engines can offer new methods for the structured navigation through an image archive based on these semantic annotations.

Stocks + Soccer = Stoccer

During the FIFA World Cup 2006 Stoccer has provided a platform for football friends as well as stock market friends to trade their expectations about the outcome of the tournament. The acquired data is used for research on the prediction accuracy as well as the design of Prediction Markets. Currently, the 2007/2008 German Bundesliga can be traded under http://stoccer.de.

KMIR - Knowledge Management Implementation and Recommendation Framework

KMIR (“Knowledge Management Implementation and Recommendation Framework”) supports organizations in the successful implementation of Knowledge Management (KM). Best Practice Cases (BPCs) of successfully accomplished KM introductions are captured by an ontology-based case base. A newly defined profile of a requesting organisation can be matched against existing BPCs. The most similar retrieved BPC is adapted to the new situation and returned as a recommendation. The KMIR-portal is available at www.kmir.de

SOBOLEO - Social Bookmarking and Lightweight Ontology Engineering

SOBOLEO ("Social Bookmarking and Lightweight Engineering of Ontologies") is a web-based tool that integrates the ontology development process with the application of ontologies (e.g. annotation, search and retrieval). SOBOLEO supports people working in a certain domain in the collaborative development of a shared index of relevant web resources (bookmarks) and of a shared ontology that is used to organize the bookmarks.
We offer commercial services for integrating the ontology editor in your own products, using SOBOLEO to support your internal knowledge management or improving tag-based applications. Demo and further information: Social semantic bookmarking und collaborative ontology development.

SemPIT - Service Mashup Planner

The Service Mashup Planner supports the design and validation process of complex services. Services are modelled based on an underlying ontology framework that is designed with focus on non-functional and especially economic service properties. The SMP has been developed in the context of an industrial project with IBM. Detailed information on the SMP including a demo video can be accessed at http://www.iw.uni-karlsruhe.de/smp.

Sparqlr - Joining the Semantic Web + Web 2.0

Sparqlr is a open source webservice that brings together the Semantic Web - RDF world with the RSS/Atom/JSON mainstream web. This webservice enables YahooPipes to access any public SPARQL endpoint. In YahooPipes you can mix the results with all kinds of data and return the result as website/RSS/ATOM/JSON.

KAON - Karlsruhe Ontology

KAON is an open-source ontology management infrastructure targeted for business applications. It includes a comprehensive tool suite allowing easy ontology creation and management and provides a framework for building ontology-based applications. An important focus of KAON is scalable and efficient reasoning with ontologies.

KAON2 - Ontology Management for the Semantic Web

KAON2 is a system for automated reasoning with ontologies and semantic meta data. Besides various extensions for rule-based reasoning with SWRL and F-Logic, it particularly supports the Web Ontology Language OWL. KAON2 was specifically designed to handle large instance data by means of novel reasoning algorithms and provides fast query answering. Besides the integration of the ontology infrastructure into custom applications, FZI offers consulting in the use of current ontology languages and W3C standards such as RDF(S) and OWL. Currently KAON2 is freely available for non-commercial use.

RDF2Go - A unified API for RDF triple stores

RDF2Go is an abstraction over triple (and quad) stores. It allows developers to program against RDF2Go interfaces and choose or change the implementation later easily. No compile time dependencies. Easily add new stores. Triple and quad support.

RDFReactor - generates easy-to-use Java domain classes to access RDF

For each ontology class RDFReactor generates an easy-to-use Java domain class which can be use by any developer to access RDF without deep technical understanding of RDF. Generated classes views the RDF data model through object-oriented Java proxies. It makes using RDF easy for Java developers. RDFReactor is open source and available under the BSD-licence.

OpenProposal

The fundamental idea behind OpenProposal is based on the fact that in most modern software products the users’ requirements refer directly to the graphical user interface. Therefore the idea of capturing these requirements in a graphical form, supplementing a textual description, was taken into consideration. Since nowadays graphical annotations are unusual in requirements management, and since most of the time sketches and screen shots are merely used on paper, this research wants to discuss the use of graphical annotations in Requirements Management.
The OpenProposal process provides two tools. The annotation tool enables the user to visually formulate his ideas and send them to the collaboration platform tool, which gives an overview of the submitted proposals and allows discussions between users, developers, deciders etc.

Stroke Angel – Telemedical applications in EMS

In the Stroke Angel project mobile devices are applied within the ambulance to analyse the health situation of the patient with the Los Angeles Prehospital Stroke Screen (LAPSS) metric and to transmit data to the next specialised hospital to precociously trigger preparation for clinical treatment.
The patient’s data, the LAPSS indication and the EMS-protocol are acquired by the paramedic with the help of a so called Future.Pad. Insurance data is transferred through a card reader to the Future.Pad that itself is connected to a mobile phone via Bluetooth-connection. Transmission to the hospital is then realized by GPRS. In the hospital, data is displayed on the computer in the emergency room in order to provide the team on duty with all necessary information to prepare them for the moment the patient arrives.